RHN Demo Accts. and Fedora

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:19, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 19:13, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:06:08AM -0600, The Matt wrote:
> > > I'm sure this has been answered but I've never seen it in my time.  I
> > > just got my RHN Demo Survey and I was wondering, if my boxes are now all
> > > Fedora...do I need this anymore?  Will Fedora's rawhide access ever
> > > depend on RHN or is it separate now?
> > 
> > I expect that Fedora's content will be available as a yum-enabled archive
> > indefinitely, no matter what other mechanisms are available.  Of course,
> > nothing is constant but change itself, but I don't have any reason to
> > think that will change.
> 
> I sure hope that once the common repository metadata "project", on which
> people from all depsolver camps are working on gets to usable state and
> is implemented in important-to-Fedora depsolver(s) the archives switch
> to that, instead of yum-only repository.

+1

So do I.

To me, the whole point of the common metadata format is to get all
places to use it. I know I'll be using it on everything *.dulug.duke.edu
once it's finished.

-sv